The Parker probe breaks the record of approach with the Sun

NASA's Parker probe broke the record for a man-made aircraft approaching the Sun, surpassing the previous mark of 42.73 million kilometers traveled on the sun's surface. Over the next seven years, it will make 24 other approaches, the last of which will be only 6 million kilometers.

The previous record was established by the German-American collaboration Helios 2 in April 1976. Like the Parker probe, Helios 2 was a probe sent to the solar orbit (heliocentric) to study the processes in the Sun. Record speed in heliocentric orbit in 1976, reaching a maximum speed of 246 000 960 km / h.

In any case, Parker also surpassed Helios 2's helioscentric speed record (measured in relation to the Sun), just as it is expected to break the geocentric speed record during its last pass around the Sun, reaching a maximum speed estimated at 692 mph 017 km / h, although this does not happen until 2025.

According to NASA, by June 2025, the probe will complete 24 perihelion (the closest point to the orbit of a celestial body around the Sun), moving between Venus and then turning to the Inside the Sun's crown to get the most possible observations. nearby that we have never taken from our star.

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